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thsi si my 2nd psot and yet again is another askin for help .(thou this oen isnt as un-serious as the former one) but yeah

this problem as bene happening for what 6 months? but basically its this..:
everytime the computer boots up form being turned of or restart w/e..it always goes to a balck screen wiht the flashing cursor such as in DOS mode....imgine this::

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and it stays at that for about usually 15 mins thou i can occasiaonly range from 5 mins to 25 mins....
a couple firneds fo mine tell me that its probably a meory problem which is all fine and stuff..cept they dont know wat wuld correct it..
plz help....again....? thanks...
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First, learn to spell. I had to run that through my Chi decoder to understand it.

It's either BIOS settings or a hardware problem. It might be that your hard disk is not rotating.
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First, learn to spell. I had to run that through my Chi decoder to understand it.

It's either BIOS settings or a hardware problem. It might be that your hard disk is not rotating.
lol yeah not that i cant spell its i cant type to save my life i know it my major fault one whcih i am yet to rectify and believe it or not that was a good post considerin for me and im much better at typing than i was 2 yrs ago..so yeah...and yeah after nosing bout on the site for loong time i found one other post which said something abotut he BIOs needing to be reset by removin the CMOS battery from mother baord.( unplug computer of ocusrse..) so i mite try that...more on this later
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UPDATE ..ok i found the REAL casue of my problem..after some thiniking and soem erro mesages..i released that the start up problem was caused by a simple thing...hardware..mroe precisly a Hp photosmart C3100 series printer/scanner / photocopier..so yes thats all great and dandy ..i unpluged and it restarted...but now wat....i reinstalled it and its not restarting properly whiel the printer is plugged in..but unplug it and it wokrs as if all is right inthe world...so help plz??
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is the printer USB or paralell?
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is the printer USB or paralell?
USB... which is how i found the error..but now im stumped...-_-*..
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if you unplug all other USB devices and have just the USB printer then does it boot up fine? (im wondering if maybe having loads of usb devices at startup draws too much juice?)
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if you unplug all other USB devices and have just the USB printer then does it boot up fine? (im wondering if maybe having loads of usb devices at startup draws too much juice?)
dont believe so ...only got 3 USB plugins incldin that printer (the 3rd only added this past month this problem has been goin on..for about 4+ months )...and as soon i as i unplgu it it takes a couple mins to load up..vs wiht ti in...whcih is...15-20 mins?....soo...i highly doubt itd varry that much for one device unless asaid device has soemthign messed....o.0....which is my guessing...any suggesstions?
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maybe it takes ages searching for USB devices. My dell took around 10 seconds looking for bootable USB keys which annoyed me so i turned it off in the BIOS. Maybe you have a similar issue?
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maybe it takes ages searching for USB devices. My dell took around 10 seconds looking for bootable USB keys which annoyed me so i turned it off in the BIOS. Maybe you have a similar issue?

perhaps..seems likly....how do i switch it?......
after entering settings that is...
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